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blair @blairaf.com · 30/09/2026
"You may not deadname superintelligence but you should deadname trans people" is now 100% real US policy
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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 28/09/2026
> It is so incredibly bleak watching one OSS project after another betray every single principle, betray their users, betray *everything* to cuddle up to fascist technology. wandering.shop/@xgranade/11...
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Cassandra has had an adventure (@xgranade@wandering.shop)
It is so incredibly bleak watching one OSS project after another betray every single principle, betray their users, betray *everything* to cuddle up to fascist technology.
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silver @silverboots.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is just to say I have eaten the moon that was in my orbit and which you were probably wanting to study Forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so cold
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
I had a conversation with a DEI professional in another country last week, and y'all know I'm a critic of DEI as a framework, but she said something while discussing where the US is on the path to genocide: The goal of DEI work is to prevent genocidal ideas from taking root.
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dotj @dotttj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
words really aren’t enough here
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Imagine if this was batteries, solar panels, and wind farms. Maybe some hospitals and care homes!
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As @doctorow.pluralistic.net says, "Geometry hates cars." Transportation in cities is a space problem, not a tech problem.
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dotj @dotttj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
cool it finally happened, my company decided to cancel our IDE subscriptions to make space in the budget for… ai? lol
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Enjoyed this article about the growing number of men adopting cats, bucking gender stereotypes. Apparently Mamdani is allergic to cats, but has been getting allergy shots because his wife wants to adopt one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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Dave Franco, Jordan Poole and Other Everyday Cat Dads Are Redefining Gender Stereotypes (Gift Article)
We’re living in the age of the “cat dad” and he’s being used to sell premium cat products and talk about healthy masculinity.
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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 07/07/2026
> “Hallucination,” then, is not a bug awaiting a patch but a symptomatic expression of this structural condition. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Human communication involves not only internal
coherence but also reference to shared reality, and
communicated words, thus, carry extensions, relations to
the actual nature of things in the world, which calculated
words do not (Bunz, 2026). Two terms may share the
adjacent intension in a high-dimensional vector space while
differing radically in extension, a phenomenon impossible in
communicated language, but routine in calculation. The result
is writing that is relevant without being reliable; contextually
proximate, but not anchored to the things those words
ostensibly name. “Hallucination,” then, is not a bug awaiting
a patch but a symptomatic expression of this structural
condition. When users treat LLM outputs as communications
of “meaning” rather than calculations of form, they engage in
“human hallucination”, anthropomorphizing generated writing
by conceptualizing it in the image of human expression
(Bunz, 2026), producing a systematic over-attribution of
understanding to systems where none exists. Training critical
thinkers to recognize the mode of production underlying a
text, rather than reasoning solely from its surface fluency, thus
becomes a pedagogical obligation.
Of note, this argument does not claim that LLMs are
useless.‡
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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ok so just so we’re clear on the concerns that are taken seriously ❌ it’s terrible for the climate ❌ it’s fuelled by stolen data ❌ it threatens jobs/entire occupations ❌ it’s often just wrong ❌ it’s literally caused actual suicides ✅ one day it might extinct everyone by bioengineering a plague
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 15/09/2026
I almost forgot that 1 year ago, @coyotemedia.org went live!!! holy shit, what the hell? in the past year, we’ve published so much good shit, like @annaleen.bsky.social asking Bay Area govs to be more visionary with transit www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
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A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The cyber and info sec communities are looking at the recent AI news quite differently than the rest of us. Some are going back into work and telling their engineers "hey, remember how we said we'd get to that patch later...let's actually prioritize that."
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mathematicians out here saying it is not the proof that matters, but the human understanding of the proof. We are all humanists now.
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own
Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing
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dotj @dotttj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
if we ever make it to the other side of this, I hope we bring back shame and I hope every botlicker and out-of-touch, ai-pilled executive stews in their own shame long enough for the arrogance to fall off their bones. I hope they realize how fucking embarrassing they are.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026
Bosses *claimed* they were buying improved efficiency, but what they were really after was *reassurance*: reassurance that the workers whom they relied upon were engaged in nothing more than a set of reducible, mechanical steps.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Want an example of successful pushback on "AI" (surveillance) ed tech? This story is uplifting and amazing. @ifeoma.bsky.social is absolutely amazing. Thank you @alixdunn.com and @themaybe.org for this episode. www.themaybe.org/podcast/meet...
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Meet the Mom Winning Against AI in Schools w/ Ifeoma Ozoma
In New Mexico, kids are required to read aloud to an AI avatar named Amira—and it records their voices without consent. Ifeoma Ozoma fights back.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 21/07/2025
We are all made of stars, but your RBAC shouldn’t be
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
The hacking tools the chatbot companies are developing stand to carry on this very stupid tradition. It *is* scary, but not because the chatbots are waking up. It's scary because the world's IT systems are indifferently created and poorly maintained and riddled with vulnerabilities: xkcd.com/2347/
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.
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Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare
Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
Timnit is being shy and not telling you guys to PREORDER HER BOOK ABOUT THIS www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...
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Deep Unlearning
Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...
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dotj @dotttj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“be mindful of those around you” lol
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Has any technology been so AGGRESSIVELY sold to the public as AI? I can't think of any other example in my lifetime.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How many people are moral offloading to AI?
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sure everything is terrible, but at least everything is dumb as hell too.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/08/2026
if responding to racists with “fuck you, you should be excluded from polite society” means I do not support academic freedom then I guess I don’t support academic freedom
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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/08/2026
I cannot begin to count the amount of technology tools I have been told in the last 20 years that I need to teach my students how to use because they were the future. 95% of them are gone. A tool is a tool.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026
You don't have to believe AI "art" is good (I don't), nor do you have to that AI "art" *can* be good (I don't) to understand the reason that the capital markets are putting trillions into AI is *they* believe they can fire workers and replace us with AI: pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a... 1/
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 14/08/2026
this push to make people not even realize when they are using AI features is so insidious
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/08/2026
this is a pretty good microcosm of how things in big tech have changed over the past few years is this really important? no, but "what's in the microkitchens" is an easy way to make people feel special, which is something that used to be very important in big tech now it's "sit down and shut up"
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026
Exacerbated environmental racism is one of the major very real harms of data centers, and something that people who've been studying & discussing this for over a decade have long pointed out. It gets put in communities already most disproportionately harmed by pollution like emissions & waste heat.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Here’s your Saturday read: Today we talk about leaving and not leaving. “…it’s worth remembering that when we say ‘I could live here’ what we might really mean is ‘I would really like to be on vacation forever.’ Which is fair.” buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
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How to live somewhere safe
If you had to leave the U.S. where would you live?
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dotj @dotttj.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
i can’t remember the last time i got 100% on anything damn
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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
black text on white reads :Joseph Fasano

When men

broke open

the miraculous power

of the atom,

the first thing they did

with it

was deliver it

into the hands

of the schoolchildren

of Hiroshima.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#AI #LLM Something I've not seen commented on is the explosion of bot-impeding pages (e.g., via Cloudflare) that now appear before web pages load. The cumulative time waste for human users has got to be in the billions of person-hours. An immense burden imposed on everyone by the AI-bro assholes.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/08/2026
If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future. The @theguardian.com just published an amazing piece about my book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy." Coming August 18! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 13/06/2026
I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar. This means: 1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts are making anti AI arguments so we could promote worse arguments overall — remember: 1/
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
@peestains

guy with mommy issues: i like being called
good boy

girl with mommy issues: this wretched
earth has no place for me but i am enslaved
to my flesh and kin for why do i feel
obligated to exist if my only purpose is to
decay
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
There’s also something to how women are socialized to be suspicious of flattery — it’s how we transfer responsibility for men’s desire onto women’s bodies; we are taught to defend against that in service to our “innocence” or whatever — whereas men accept flattery as their due. Perfect marks.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 31/07/2026
If you ever feel unqualified, remember that a gang of billionaires spent $900 million for 60,000 acres with no water, no infrastructure, a roster of endangered species, and a voter-approved ordinance that specifically bans building a city there. Now they’re begging politicians to bail them out.
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